Writing Fighting 222

Glasgow 1 dagger

[@mythiclore5508]

What if they try to slice your forearm on the way down? Or is this just for thrusting weapons?

[@1Phokion]

Honestly? It depends on a great many factors… after all, you are disarming a person with a knife. But depending on knife design, opponents grip and your level of training, you probably don’t get cut.

[@mythiclore5508]

@@1Phokion Isn't the turning of the wrist to slide the edge across their arm less movement than the whole rotation of the arm to get to the end of the disarm?

[@1Phokion]

@@mythiclore5508I don’t know what you are asking. I can only say this works and it is what Fiore, an important historical maestro, taught in ca 1400, which is the salient issue (to me)

[@mythiclore5508]

​@@1Phokion I'm asking what I asked. I don't see what is unclear, but I guess I'll break it down:
1. The blade is coming down.
2. The defender gets their arm under it and blocks at the wrist.
3. That puts the blade either very close to the forearm of the blocking arm, or right on it, as it was when you paused.
4. Then the blade slides over that forearm as she twists to disarm.
Unless that arm is armored, or that blade has no edge, that blocking arm is going to have a mean gash on it.